{"id":32368,"date":"2019-02-06T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=32368"},"modified":"2019-02-06T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:07:36","slug":"lost-grave-of-famous-explorer-matthew-flinders-found-first-to-fully-map-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2019\/02\/lost-grave-of-famous-explorer-matthew-flinders-found-first-to-fully-map-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Grave of Famous Explorer Matthew Flinders Found: First to Fully Map Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The British explorer Matthew Flinders whereabouts has been something of a mystery for 200 years. But, the once lost sailor show was the first to circumnavigate and map Australia and Tasmania, turned up recently under London\u2019s Euston Station. Here\u2019s the report from <\/em>The Guardian<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some said he was buried under platform 4; others suggested platform 12 or 15. When a statue of Captain Matthew Flinders was installed at Euston in 2014, the only regret of those who had campaigned for a memorial to the explorer \u2013 who led the first circumnavigation of Australia \u2013 was that his final resting place, understood to be somewhere near the London rail station, was unlikely ever to be known.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, that mystery has been solved by archaeologists working on the new HS2 rail link. The remains of the British navigator \u2013 buried over 200 years ago \u2013 have now been discovered in a graveyard being excavated to make way for the high-speed line between London and Birmingham. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/matthew-flinders-grave-discovered-after-200-years-near-london-station\/ar-BBSHx7X?ocid=ientp\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British explorer Matthew Flinders whereabouts has been something of a mystery for 200 years. But, the once lost sailor show was the first to circumnavigate and map Australia and Tasmania, turned up recently under London\u2019s Euston Station. Here\u2019s the report from The Guardian. &nbsp; Some said he was buried under platform 4; others suggested platform 12 or 15. When a statue of Captain Matthew Flinders was installed at Euston in 2014, the only regret of those who had campaigned for a memorial to the explorer \u2013 who led the first circumnavigation of Australia \u2013 was that his final resting place, understood to be somewhere near the London rail station, was unlikely ever to be known. Five years later, that mystery has been solved by archaeologists working on the new HS2 rail link. The remains of the British navigator \u2013 buried over 200 years ago \u2013 have now been discovered in a graveyard being excavated to make way for the high-speed line between London and Birmingham. Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32370,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32368\/revisions\/32370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}